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← 37 ALAAPP 684 - Reliford v. State

Reliford v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1954

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 1980
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 34 Ala. App. 487 - Womack v. State · Hargrove v. State · 33 Ala. App. 451 - Jones v. State · 30 Ala. App. 89 - Emerson v. State

Most-quoted passages

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  1. ““In considering the court’s ruling on the motion to exclude the evidence we are required to take the evidence in its most favorable light for the "prosecution. Jones v. State, 33 Ala.App. 451 , 34 So.2d 483 ; Womack v. State, 34 Ala.App. 487 , 41 So.2d 429 . “It is also a legal truism that when the evidence affords inference adverse to the accused the question is one for the determination of the jury. Emerson v. State, 30 Ala.App. 89 , 1 So.2d 604 ; Hargrove v. State, 147 Ala. 97 , 41 So. 972 . “We are of the opinion the evidence submitted affords inference of defendant’s guilt and that it was sufficient, if believed by the jury beyond a reasonable doubt, to sustain the judgment of conviction. ...””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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